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I have no idea why we decided that everyone who makes content or provides a service must also be great at moderating commenting systems. Disaggregating comment

I have no idea why we decided that everyone who makes content or provides a service must also be great at moderating commenting systems. Disaggregating comment from content is a great move for the web. It's part of the process of offloading commenting systems to people who are good at running them. There's no reason we couldn't eventually have a browser plugin that appends a forum to a side-panel on every page online. In fact, Google had one of those, called Sidewiki. It was one of the most visionary ideas for the web that no one ever used.

moonshinefe 10y ago
"I have no idea why we decided that everyone who makes content or provides a service must also be great at moderating commenting systems." I think the key here is this has been one of, if not the biggest movie rating / db site in the world for years and years and they won't do it. This isn't some poor bloke in his basement struggling to moderate, it's a massively popular website that should have some resources. Everyone doesn't have to be great at moderating when they start up forums, but a hugely trafficked website that's been there forever should maybe get a handle on it, if they've been offering it for a long time.